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This will be our final year attending Anime Expo as exhibitors. We're closer to the front this time at Booths #325, 424! Our latest shipment of new figures will be brought directly to the convention along with larger scaled figures that are not li...

Renowned Japanese anime and manga store Tora no Ana recently conducted an official Love Live! poll and asked its customers which μ's member would be the best "Spring Girl". The poll was asked in all Tora no Ana stores all over Japan and garnered m...

The penultimate episode of Love Live! season 2 (episode 12) featured the μ's going up against the very best school idols in the country in the final stage of the nationwide school idol competition known as Love Live: School Idol Project.

The teaser trailer of the "Attack on Titan Part I: Crimson Bow and Arrow" compilation film is finally online. The film compiles episodes 1-13 of the TV anime series. First edition advance tickets will go on sale on June 21, and will come with a B6...

Anime Expo (AX) - one of the world largest and longest running anime conventions is back for yet another year of anime, anime and more anime! AX takes place this year at the LA Convention Center from 3 - 6 July.

Art book Hiro Kanzaki Artwork Collections Cute hits Japan today collecting art by the Oreimo light novel illustrator covering the first six light novels plus doujinshi and other works created up to until 2007, plus a special novella.

Japanese summers are hard to bear. With high humidity levels, the energy-sapping heat has such an overwhelming effect on the body there's even a word for summer lethargy in the Japanese lexicon: natsubate.

One Week Friends Episode 12 Youth at its finest. What They Say: "I'd Like for Us to be Friends. " Yuki Hase, a high school boy, is concerned about a girl of his classmate, Kaori Fujimiya. She always stays alone and never tries to become close frie...

We no doubt have plenty of playable character reveals to look forward to for Hyrule Warriors, AKA Zelda Musou, which hits Japan first this August. This week's issue of Famitsu magazine reveals that Agitha from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes...

The internet domain name "ansatsu-anime. com" has already been registered, according to website Makko. biz which handles many domain name registrations. The registration could very well mean that an anime adaptation for Yuusei Matsui's beloved Sho...

⬈ ⬋ - + review Jun 22, 18:00 Hiro Mashima tells us that this was only intended to be a three chapter serial for a younger audience and that heroine Mummy turned into the inspiration for Erza in his next, rather longer, series.

Anime stamp makers Itaindou has announced that they will be turning the abtastic and abtacular swimmers of Free! and making them into seal stamps. Each of the five main characters will be getting three specially designed stamps which can be used o...

Atlus opened a teaser site with a picture of a giant tree and a humorous title that reads, "This is not broccoli #ATLUS. " The page has gigantic tree, Atlus (written in katakana), broccoli (written in katakana), broccoli, and Atlus as keywords.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Bandai Namco's next major Dragon Ball game, will have a new character partaking in several popular battles from across the series. Namco say this character has the potential to "rewrite Dragon Ball history," although detai...

Bandai Namco has the license to Godzilla and are working on a PlayStation 3 game. The news comes from this week's round up of Japanese magazine leaks, which reports Godzilla will have a retro special effects style.

When the first volume of Shonen Jump manga sells over a million copies, then it maintains stellar popularity, an anime adaptation is pretty much inevitable. In time for its two year anniversary in Weekly Shonen Jump issue 31, on sale June 30th, it...

It seems as if we will be the bad guys in Final Fantasy Explorers, as we'll have to beat summon monsters in order to acquire crystals for mankind. However, these crystals are like the planet's life source, and summons like Ifrit will do everything...

The official website of Gundam: G no Reconguista has released lots of new content at the end of the website's countdown. The series itself will be airing this October. Here is a new key visual of the anime: The second promotional video was release...

Attack on Titan Crimson Bow and Arrow – Commercial The first commercial has released for Attack on Titan Crimson Bow and Arrow (Shingeki no Kyojin Zenpen ~Guren no Yumiya~) the first compilation film based on the anime series.

'Tsubasa' Manga Slated As Miniseries Posted by Chris Beveridge June 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Though they're certainly less common in a sense than we get with US comic books, miniseries do exist in the world of manga.

Re:_Hamatora – Promotional Video + Opening & Ending Themes Revealed The first promotional video has released for Re:_Hamatora, the second season of Hamatora The Animation. The video gives us a glimpse of the anime's continuation from the first sea...

「闘う少年たち」 (Tatakau Shonen Tachi ) "Boys' Battlefield" As we approach the mid-way point of Captain Earth, the general formula remains the same. For better and for worse, it's all about tracking down the remaining designer children, and our newest es...

June 22, 2014 – We are at the Star Theatre and it was filled with many people as they are awaiting for the doors to open for the KPP NANDA COLLECTION WORLD TOUR 2014 IN SINGAPORE. Everyone looks very excited to see Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on stage again.

Negicco Reveals New MV "Sunshine Nihonkai" filmed with 8mm camera Jun. 23. 2014Video Sponsored links Negicco, an idol group belongs to TOWER RECORDS' idol-specified label "T-Palette Records", has unveiled the Music Video for their new single "Suns...

Akame ga Kill! – Commercial A new video has released for the anime adaptation of Akame ga Kill! It is a TV commercial to advertise the series, which will be animated by White Fox (Steins;Gate, Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?

The Pokémon Company has been trying to involve itself with the ongoing 2014 World Cup in a variety of ways. Earlier in the year, it announced a tie-up with Adidas for Pokémon-themed jerseys to support the home team in Japan.

At last week's E3, the Guinness World Records presented Square Enix a World Record for the Dragon Quest franchise. The record is for the "longest-running Japanese RPG series". The Dragon Quest series started in 1986 with its first game, "Dragon Qu...

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